HETEROTOPIAS
7 min. VR Essay, 2018
Heterotopias is a virtual reality experience based on Michel Foucault’s influential lecture, Des espaces autres. The experience leverages developing eye-tracking technology to transform users’ blinks into cinematic cuts. With every blink, the virtual space alters, producing variable configurations of stereoscopic 360 footage and computer generated models. To complement the ungrounded transformation of space, the series includes spatialized audio and custom furniture, the user is suspended in a hanging chair.
The primary goal of this VR essay is to establish a sensory version of Foucault’s heterotopology, which he defines as “the study, analysis, description, and ‘reading’” of places that simultaneously reflect and invert the rules of social engagement. Ultimately, Heterotopias functions as a reflection and critique of neoliberal individualism.
Exhibitions:
Siggraph2019, Stacked, Codame Art+Tech, Genf International Film Festival
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The primary goal of this VR essay is to establish a sensory version of Foucault’s heterotopology, which he defines as “the study, analysis, description, and ‘reading’” of places that simultaneously reflect and invert the rules of social engagement. Ultimately, Heterotopias functions as a reflection and critique of neoliberal individualism.
Exhibitions:
Siggraph2019, Stacked, Codame Art+Tech, Genf International Film Festival
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